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There've been approximately 50 million of these over the years; it's a commodity.

Really, if you're looking at open source, I'd recommend joining an existing project that you find interesting. Nothing prevents you from making a site based on such a project, and they might even like the exposure it gets them.

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I had considered that back when I started it. Initially I was just going to develop more into Redmine and build it out into a central site, as it was really the only suitable candidate for something like this. The internals clashed a lot with my vision of what I wanted to do, so I made a decision to forgo using it outright, and just developing beyond it, referencing it purely for inspiration.

SCM/Project Management is very saturated at this point, and that's really my only worry.

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